Electronic Groupsets.....good idea or utterly pointless for most people ?

Oh how i suffer riding to work on my downtube shifting 7 speed indexed bike :( Oh the agony of my 23 year old campy groupset that's still as good as the day i bought it. A mechanical bike should be the future, when everyone is banging on about saving the planet how can you lot condone Lithium and all that goes with it then the production of electricity to charge it etc etc. A bicycle is supposed to be the greenest form of transport but people being people the planet is f#cked anyway. But no doubt many of you will greenwash your own brains. I have got into my trench with helmet on waiting for the incoming .:)
I agree mate. But it will happen whether we like it or not. Still want to try one though :) You shouldn't get crap for your opinion when it's politely put as above:( Any doubts look at the old "crap" I ride in my signature. I love old stuff.
 
I agree mate. But it will happen whether we like it or not. Still want to try one though :) You shouldn't get crap for your opinion when it's politely put as above:( Any doubts look at the old "crap" I ride in my signature.
That is why it's all bollox about saving the planet on so many levels. It's not old crap you ride, it uses nothing, easily recyclable etc. The WHO is on about the world running out of clean drinking water in the future so let's not waste it on needless things. Mind you it's peeing down at the moment here :(
 
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Oh how i suffer riding to work on my downtube shifting 7 speed indexed bike :( Oh the agony of my 23 year old campy groupset that's still as good as the day i bought it. A mechanical bike should be the future, when everyone is banging on about saving the planet how can you lot condone Lithium and all that goes with it then the production of electricity to charge it etc etc. A bicycle is supposed to be the greenest form of transport but people being people the planet is f#cked anyway. But no doubt many of you will greenwash your own brains. I have got into my trench with helmet on waiting for the incoming .:)
TOTALLY AGREE!!!!! the beauty and elegance of a bicycle is that I power it with my muscles and it is a wonderful mechanical device that has been refined to the point that the mechanics work brilliantly well albeit with a "little" mechanical acumen required. I dont want electronics, a computer, on an ebike, maybe, but not on a bicycle. (I will make an exception for a trip computer thaough) The only reason I didnt bring up the environmental issue is that as a lifetime environmentalist, I am well used to ridicule and hostility when talking about such matters, I have kind of had it knocked out of me, for those that dont care, there is no point trying to reason with them....sadly
 
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Oh how i suffer riding to work on my downtube shifting 7 speed indexed bike :( Oh the agony of my 23 year old campy groupset that's still as good as the day i bought it. A mechanical bike should be the future, when everyone is banging on about saving the planet how can you lot condone Lithium and all that goes with it then the production of electricity to charge it etc etc. A bicycle is supposed to be the greenest form of transport but people being people the planet is f#cked anyway. But no doubt many of you will greenwash your own brains. I have got into my trench with helmet on waiting for the incoming .:)
Amen to that bro
 
Electronic groupsets look great. I'd love to try one. I suspect they wouldn't suit me TBH.

Also, why derail this into a thread about environmental issues? (Rhetorical question - doesn't require an answer). It's not a route you want to go down unless you're a childless hermit who lives under a rock and lives on grass. As you're on an internet forum, I find that hill to die on laughable.

Fwiw; Retrobike is a pretty amazing place with some truly wonderful people. Its also a generally positive and supportive community. You've received some negative responses (by retrobike standards) to several of your threads now (Guilty, Your Honour), as it seems that you just want to rant (albeit carefully, and perhaps passive-aggressively) about modern bikes and the price of them. Most of us are cyclists, not just retrogrouches*, so don't feel the need to bash everything modern.
I don't want to make you feel unwelcome, you are, and it's not my place to judge who's right or wrong, or even to stifle your right to an opinion, but perhaps you've misread the audience slightly? Get involved with some of the awesome people and general silliness here, pull up a chair and hide your wallet. But, maybe leave some of the resentment at the door?

2 wheels = good.

Peace.




* LGF, I'm looking at you.
 
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